W Quotes
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“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”
“When a domain reaches a point where the knowledge for skillful professional practice cannot be acquired in a decade, more or less, then several adaptive developments are likely to occur. Specialization will usually increase (as it has, for example, in medicine), and practitioners will make increasing use of books and other external reference aids in their work.
Architecture is a good example of a domain where much of the information a professional requires is stored in reference works, such as catalogues of available building materials, equipment, and components, and official building codes. No architect expects to keep all of this in his head or to design without frequent resort to these information sources. In fact architecture can almost be taken as a prototype for the process of design in a semantically rich task domain. The emerging design is itself incorporated in a set of external memory structures: sketches, floor plans, drawings of utility systems, and so on. At each stage in the design process, partial design reflected in these documents serves as a major stimulus suggesting to the designer what he should attend to next. This direction to new sub-goals permits in turn new information to be extracted from memory and reference sources and another step to be taken toward the development of the design.”
Source: The Sciences of the Artificial
“When a door closes, do not go looking for someone to blame. Look for what to do to become great.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“When a door closes, it could be the wrong door, or it could be the right door opened at the wrong time.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“When a door closes, learn to communicate with God. He will reveal the hidden wisdom beyond that door.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“When a door closes on you, avoid dwelling on negativity. Cultivate a positive attitude, pick yourself up, and step through better doors.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“When a door closes on you, it does not mean God is done with you. It means that He is preparing you for something wonderful.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going”
“When a door is hard to open, and if nothing else works, sometimes you just have to rear back and kick it open.”
“When a doting person gets down on all fours and plays with a puppy's rubber mouse, for instance, it only confuses the young dog and gives him a sense of insecurity. He gets the impression that his world is unstable, and wonders whether he is expected to walk on his hind legs and learn to smoke cigars.”
“When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.”
Source: The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces
“When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.”
“When a drastic and rushed medicalization approach based on trending controversial ideology is presented as the only option to solve the emotional, psychological, or physical discomfort of our kids, then we have failed to help the younger generation set themselves up for future health and well-being.”
Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
“When a drawing doesn't come out right it's because I haven't figured out where the joke is. Not that every drawing has a joke, but every drawing has a point. At least it should have. And you figure out where the point is.”
“When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain, O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch You'll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.”
Source: Complete Poems
“When a dream is well dreamt, it is certain to come true.”
Source: The Oneironaut’s Diary
“When a dream of dying actually becomes a chance to live... all you have to do is fall.”
Source: Falling Out of Focus
“When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.”
Source: Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy
“When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)”
“When a Drop of Water falls on the floor from a 10 feet height, it gets divided into multi droplets. We Humans are Droplets of a Big Force ‘Drop’ (a divine force).”
Source: Key for the Next Generation Growth: Author: Human composer of the God played new tune
“When a drop of water touches a drop of water there is no holding back - it joins. Water responds to water. Your being responds to what is the same, outside of you, as your own being.”
“When a drug comes in from Canada, I wanna make sure it cures ya, not kill ya... I've got an obligation to make sure our government does everything we can to protect you. And one - my worry is that it looks like it's from Canada, and it might be from a third world.”
“When a drug comes out [that's broadly prescribed] there are going to start to be a lot of people on it [in a million person cohort] and you might get therefore an early signal of something unexpected that hadn't come through in the clinical trials. And I'm sure [drug companies] would love it if, in fact, FDA, recognizing that, would say, OK, maybe you don't have to do your trial with 30,000 people because we're going to find out shortly after registration because we'll have a lot of people taking the drug and we'll be able to see what happened using PMI.”
“When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!”
“When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.”
Source: The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes
“When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.”
“When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.”
Source: Strings Attached
“When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.”
Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier
“When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.”
“When a fan comes up to you and says I love your music, there’s nothing better than that.”
“When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.”
“When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping?”
“When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?”
“When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.”
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
“When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.”
“When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
“When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.”
Source: Iron John: A Book about Men
“When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.”
“When a fellow says that it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.”
“When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.”
Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son
“When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.”
“When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.”
“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.”
“When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit a rough patch.”
“When a few thousand young people find the determination to assail this world, you’d have to be as stupid as a cop to seek out a financial trail, a leader, or a snitch.”
Source: The Coming Insurrection
“When a field is declared volatile, the compiler and runtime are put on notice that this variable is shared and that operations on it should not be reordered with other memory operations. Volatile variables are not cached in registers or in caches where they are hidden from other processors, so a read of a volatile variable always returns the most recent write by any thread.”
Source: Java Concurrency in Practice
“When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.”